Ironing-board.



E. F. POLAND.

IRONING BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED mac. I8, 1917.

Patented Apr. 29,1919.

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E. F. POLAND.

IRONING BOARD.

I APPLICATION FILED DEC-Uh I917- L3L874 I Patented Apr. 29,1919.

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EDWARD F. POLAN 1), OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IRONING-BOARD.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 29, 1919.

Application filed December 18, 1917. Serial No. 207,756.

To all whom'it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD F. POLAND, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Ironin -Boards, of which the following is a speci cation.

7 This invention relates to ironing boards, and has for its object the construction of an improved form of support by which an ironing board may be arranged in horizontal position for use and while so arranged may be adjusted to several predetermined elevated positions for the convenience of persons of diflerent heights; and also may be swung upward into approximately a vertical position when out of use, while occupying any of its horizontal positions; the support being made as an entirety, independent of the board,and provision made for attaching it to a wall or other object, and for attaching the board to one of its components.

Figure 1 is a plan view of an ironing board embodying this invention, the board being in horizontal position for use.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. 8 is an end view of the device, the board being in an upright or out of useposition. v

Fig. 4 is an enlarged side view of the support with a portion of the board.

Fig.7 5 is an enlarged inner side view of one of the side pieces with engaging portions for the base. v

Fig. 6 is a view illustrating a modified formof means to which the support may be 7 attached. i

The base member of the support to which the board 12 it attached,- as here shown, is made as an open metallic structure comprising a pairof flat sidebars 9, 9, and a fiat connecting-bar 10. V 1

Its length corresponds to the width of the inner end portion of theboard 12, so that when. the board is attached to it, see Fig.

4:, by screws or other means, the side edges of the board and of the base members will be flush one with another, see Fig. 3.

The board 12 is designed to be placed on top of the base member, and the tops of the end portions of the side bars are beveled, as at 13, for engagement therewith of a correspondingly beveled end portion of the board 12, adapting them to be snugly fitted together.

The base member with board affixed thereto, is designed to be arranged horizontally for use and while horizontally disposed to be adjusted to occupy different predetermined elevated positions for persons of different heights.

For the accomplishment of this result supporting means are provided for the base at each end thereof.

The means at one end, as for instance, the outer end of the base, are adapted to hold said end-portion of the base in any elevated position it may be caused to occupy, and the means at the other end, as for instance, the inner end of the base, are adapted to hold said end-portion of the base in different predetermined elevated positions, three such positions being here shown, yet in all the difierent positions said base will be maintained horizontally so that the board will be horizontally disposed in lieu thereof. I The means connected with the outer end of the base arehere shown as a pair of bars 15, of suitable length, which are pivotally connected at their upper ends to the outer end of the base, as for instance, to lugs or ears 16, extended laterally from the side bars thereof, and which are adapted to be pivotally connected at their lower ends, as at 17, to the back-piece of the support; said bars being extended upward in a diagonal direction from the back-piece, and serving as props.

All of these pivotal connections are or may be permanent.

- The base is free to be moved on said pivotally supported uprights, and have a motion imparted to it like unto a parallel motion, and it is apparent that its outer end may be caused to occupy any difierent elevated position in which it may be set.

The supporting-means at and for the inner end of the base comprises lugs 20, 20, extended outwardly respectively from the outer side or face of each side bar 9 of the base, in opposite ways, 'see Fig. 3, and engaging-portions arranged and provided on the back-piece and adapted to receive said lugs.

The back-piece, as here shown, consists of an open quadrangular frame or structure comprising a pair of end-bars 25, 25, and a pair of side-bars 26, 26, all integrally formed.

The structure may be made of a width corresponding to the width of the end-portion of the board 12, or there-about, and of any suitable length, and will be provided with suitable means, as screws 8, adapting it to be attached to a wall, see Fig. 1, or other object, see Fig. 6, which may or may not be portable.

The engaging-portions for the lugs 20, 20, are arranged respectively on the inner faces of the side-bars 26, 26, above the pivotal connections 17, thereon for the bars 15, and, as here shown, consist of a boss or bosses 30, provided on the inner side of each side-bar 26, which extend inward, and which have recesses arranged in their adjacent sides adapted to receive and hold the lugs 20 in predetermined elevated positions, so that said lugs and consequently the end-portions of the base may be held at different predetermined elevations.

The lug receiving recesses in the bosses are made substantially alike, and each comprises a plurality of individual apertures 31, opening out of a common aperture 32, said individual apertures being arranged at diiferent elevations and the common aperture being arranged adjacent the open ends of the individual apertures, thus permitting the lug to be moved along the common aperture and into and out of any of the individual apertures.

"The individual apertures are preferably arranged in a diagonal direction, being inclined upwardly toward the base, and the individual apertures, as a series, are inclined outwardly on a line in parallel relation with the movement of the pivotal connection with the base, and the common aperture is inclined in a direction at substantially right angles to the individual apertures, which admits of a free sliding movement of the lug into and out of any individual aperture and along the common aperture, thus to enable the base to be moved into different elevated positions, yet in all such positions to maintain a horizontal position for use, in order that the ironing board attached thereto may be horizontally supported.

The common aperture is here shown as open at its lower end so that the lug may pass out as it is slid along on the inner face of the side-bar against which it normally rests, thus permitting the end-portion of the base to be moved downward until said base occupies approximately a vertical position, see Figs. 2 and 3, whereupon the board 12 may be swung upward into a vertical or out-of-use position.

It will be understood that such movement of the board and base to which it is attached is permitted bythe bar or link 15, pivotally connected with base and back-piece as here shown.

To assist in holding the component parts against lateral relative movement when the base is moved into vertical position and the lugs 20 have slid along and passed out of the lower ends of the common apertures, suitable guiding-means are provided in the side-bars of. the back-piece, here shown as flanges 36, arranged on the inner faces of said bars for a portion of their length, which flanges are extended downward from the lower open ends of the common aperture, and being located just outside of the path of movement of the lugs, so as to be engaged by the ends of thelugs .or either of them in case of endwise pressure upon them.

In operation, assuming the base with at tached board to occupy'the uppermost horizontalposition, shown in full line Fig. 2,

and in Figs. 4 and 5, then the lugs 20 will engage the uppermost individual apertures of the series.

To lower the board it may be grasped by hand and tipped upward and pressed rearward, so that the lug 20, will slide along the uppermost individual apertures into the common apertures and then along said common apertures to the entrances of adjacent individual apertures; then the board is given a reverse motion with respect to the aforesaid motion and the lugs are caused to slide into other individual apertures and to engage the end walls thereof.

During such movement of the board the base and bars or links 15 will be moved, as represented by dotted line Fig. 2, the base being maintained in horizontal position with its attachedboard for use.

When not in use the base and attached board may be swungupward and rearward into substantially a vertical position, as represented in Fig. 3 and dotted line in Fig. 2, and the lugs 20 will pass from any of the individual apertures that they may occupy to the common apertures, and will then slide along said common apertures out of the lower end openings thereof on to the sidebars between the guiding-flanges 36, and thence downward below the lower end of the back-piece, the pivotally connected bars 15 permittingsuch movement of the base.

WVhile I have herein described my invention and illustrated the same with a specific structure, yet I do not desire to limit it to the particular structure shown, as obviously it may be changed without departing from its spirit and scope.

I claim 1. An ironing board comprising a backpiece to be connected to a support, a base to which the ironing board is to be attached, a bar havingunchanging pivotal connections with the base and with the back-piece, a

women plurality of engaging means arranged at different elevations on the back-piece and arranged in a line extended downwardly and outwardly from the back-piece, and means on the base to engage either of said engaging means, said bar holding the base subs/tan tially horizontal under such engagement.

2. An ironing board comprising a backpiece, a base to which an ironing board is to be attached, a plurality of recesses formed in the upper portion and at opposite sides of the back-piece, said recesses on each side extending in a line inclined downwardly and outwardly from the back-piece, lugs carried by the base to cooperate with either of said recesses, and a bar having an unchanging pivotal point of connection with the backpiece and with the base.

3. An ironing board having a back-piece, a base to which the ironing board is to be attached, said back-piece having forward edge flanges, each formed on the inner side with a plurality of recesses extended in a line downwardly and outwardly from the back-piece, a flange on the inner surface of each flange and spaced from said recesses and extending below the lowermost recess, lugs projecting from the base to engage any of said recesses, and a bar having an unchanging pivotal connection with the base and with the back-piece and serving to support the base at substantial right angles to the back-piece with the lugs engaging any of the recesses.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses:

EDWARD F. POLAND.

Witnesses:

T. T. GREENWOOD, H. B. DAVIS.

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